Today, in the U.S. and the U.K., death is largely banished from the visual landscape... We see this form of not quite death so often that one can be forgiven for mistaking, as I did, the curated depiction for the actual event.
And then there is the stigma of grief-the idea, now rampant in American life, of closure. Most people are loath to linger in loss... U.S. companies offer, on average, five days of bereavement leave, a remarkably brief amount of time to grapple with a death.
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